A lawyer and his two stockbroker buddies
took a month off to sail across the Atlantic. Midway across they hit a hurricane and the
yacht sank, leaving barely enough time for all three to radio for help and scramble into a
rubber life raft.
The raft was riding very low in the water
and being circled relentlessly by six or seven sharks when a Coast Guard launched a small
rescue boat. A giant wave came along and swamped the survivor's raft. In an instant the
sharks mauled the stockbrokers into little more than hamburger, but then broke apart to
form a pathway and escort the survivor safely into the hands of the Coast Guard.
"Damn!" gasped one of the
astonished sailors. "That was a miracle!"
"Nah," explained the lawyer
modestly, wringing the seawater out of his shirt. "Just professional courtesy."
